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Spring: Margot Standing in a Garden (Fillette dans un jardin)
Spring: Margot Standing in a Garden (Fillette dans un jardin) is an oil painting by the Impressionist artist Mary Cassatt. It dates from 1900 and is held in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
About this work
Subject & Meaning
The inclusion of floral and arboreal motifs alongside the figure establishes a connection between the child and the season of renewal.
The painting depicts a young girl, identified as Margot, standing within a garden setting. As a portrait, the work captures the subject amidst natural elements, specifically featuring a hat, flowers, trees, and a field. Created in 1900, the composition presents the girl in an outdoor environment, emphasizing her presence within the spring landscape.
The inclusion of floral and arboreal motifs alongside the figure establishes a connection between the child and the season of renewal. The Metropolitan Museum of Art holds the work, which is classified as an oil-on-canvas portrait focusing on the girl's interaction with her immediate garden surroundings.
Technique & Style
Spring: Margot Standing in a Garden (Fillette dans un jardin) is an oil painting executed on canvas, reflecting Mary Cassatt's practice of using oil as the primary medium for her portraiture. The work is classified as a painting and falls within the portrait genre, depicting a young girl in a garden setting with a hat and flower. Cassatt's brushwork renders the figure and surrounding foliage with fine detail and a naturalistic palette, emphasizing the intimate, observational quality typical of her portraits.
Documentation does not specify handling or current condition, but the technical attributes are clearly recorded as oil on canvas.
History & Provenance
Spring: Margot Standing in a Garden (Fillette dans un jardin) is an oil on canvas portrait painted by American artist Mary Cassatt in 1900. The work measures 67.9 by 57.8 cm and depicts a young girl in a garden setting. It entered the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where it remains on view, as part of the museum's holdings of Cassatt's paintings.
Beyond its current institutional home, the available sources do not provide a specific accession number or detail the work's exhibition history.
Overview
Spring: Margot Standing in a Garden (Fillette dans un jardin) is an oil painting that presents a young girl amidst a verdant outdoor setting. The artwork evokes a sense of youthful tranquility and the vibrancy of nature, rendered through a luminous color scheme and an expressive application of paint.
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Artist
Mary Stevenson Cassatt (; May 22, 1844 – June 14, 1926) was an American painter and printmaker.
